POETRY UNIT**

The Four Horsemen: emotional poetry


Allen Ginsberg & Paul McCartney: "The Ballad of the Skeletons"



Tom Waits: Bronx Lullabye


Leonard Cohen: "Hallelujah"

SLAM POETRY


Shane Koyczan: "We Are More" for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics
(he performed this during the opening ceremonies of the Olympics)


Taylor Mali: "On What Teachers Make"

http://www.joebower.org/2010/03/taylor-mali-is-joke.html. Is Mali's poem to be taken literally? Interesting backlash from educators.


Englishman, former English Teacher, Musician...Gordon Sumner (Sting)



E-LITERATURE: RICE
Inanimate Alice

some further links to past winners of the Slam Poetry contest:

SLAM POETRY


e.e. cummings



GO TO THE POETRY DISCUSSION PAGE FOR DISCUSSION/PARTICIPATION FOR THE BIRNEY POEMS.

SOME USEFUL LINKS FOR YOUR GROUP PROJECT/POETRY THEATRE ASSIGNMENT:

• U OF T POETS INDEX
• Can.Lit
• The American Poetry Archive